Hundreds of dogs were hunted in Santa Cruz do Arari at the mouth of the Amazon in Brazil, before being crammed into boats and set adrift or left out in the wild to starve to death or be eaten by predators.

Watch this brave man actually put himself in between his dog and a pitbull that is attempting to murder his pup. Watch as the pitbull latches onto the back of his dog's neck, only for the man's of do everything he can to get in between them.

Eventually, the pitbull switches its bite over to his leg instead before finally the man breaks free.

A dog falling from the roof of a two-storey building struck a woman on the head, leaving her with a serious neck injury in an unprecedented incident in Guangzhou City, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, earlier this month.

Google translate : "The videos that are circulating in social networks have repercussions throughout the country and show a group, with at least six men, practicing a barbarous act of mistreatment against a dog.

As the images show, those involved in the cruel act are consuming alcoholic beverages and do not bother hiding their faces, and at any time they laugh out loud before they start cruelty.

The group holds a dog, and then one of the individuals asks who will castrate the animal. After a few seconds of aggression one of the men pulls out of the waist, which appears to be a pocketknife, and begins to perform the cold-blooded cut of the intimate parts of the dog, the scenes are strong and needed to be censored.

According to witnesses, everything happened during the night of Wednesday (10/01), in the Walloon Stream, in Tabajara, Inhapim district. As verified by the SC journalism, two animals were abused by the group.

The dogs Spike and Bill. Both were cruelly castrated. The owner of the animals performs the necessary care, they have survived and are being treated with antibiotics."